Spinal cord infarction associated with primary antiphospholipid syndrome in a young child. Case report.

@article{Hasegawa1993SpinalCI,
  title={Spinal cord infarction associated with primary antiphospholipid syndrome in a young child. Case report.},
  author={Mitsuhiro Hasegawa and Junkoh Yamashita and Tetsumori Yamashima and Kiyonobu Ikeda and Y Fujishima and Masahide Yamazaki},
  journal={Journal of neurosurgery},
  year={1993},
  volume={79 3},
  pages={
          446-50
        }
}
Antiphospholipid antibodies have been reported to occur in ischemic stroke patients, but there have been no previous reports linking these antibodies to spinal cord infarction. A case of spinal cord infarction associated with primary antiphospholipid syndrome in a 6-year-old boy is reported. Magnetic resonance imaging clearly demonstrated marked swelling of the thoracolumbar spinal cord with gadolinium-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid enhancement at an acute stage, followed later by cord… 
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